SBIR/STTR Research Award
Enabling Materials Processing Technology for Low-Cost Fabrication of Integral Bladed Rotors (IBR)
Award amount
$99,637Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Keystone Synergistic Enterprises, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-03-08
- Contract end date
- 2004-12-08
- UEI
- PKMKULB388Z4
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- AF04-140
Research abstract
The cost of manufacturing integrally bladed rotors for large gas turbine engines is high driven by the cost of raw material, rough machining, and airfoil machining. This project will address these cost drivers by identifying methods to reduce forging weight through aggressive near-net shape forging methods, exploiting the use of fine-grain processing to improve forgeability, and demonstrate enhancements to electrochemical machining of airfoils to eliminate hand finishing operations. These improvements will be applicable to large and small engine IBRs.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Digital Engineering for CBM+
- Application of Digital Engineering Tools to Automate IBR Damage Assessment
- In-Situ Dimensional and Macro Surface Defect Mitigation in Wire-Fed Additive manufacturing Processes
- Advanced Digital Inspection for OC-ALC Insertion
- Establishing IBR Blade Structural Repair Airworthiness Acceptance Criteria
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Enabling Materials Processing Technology for Low-Cost Fabrication of Integral Bladed Rotors (IBR)
- Enabling Materials Processing Technology for Low-Cost Fabrication of Integral Bladed Rotors (IBR)
- Enabling Materials Processing Technology for Low-Cost Fabrication of Integral Bladed Rotors (IBR)
Research funding history
54 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2022). Reported award amounts total $22,727,941. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration